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 Sometimes Fran imagines herself dead in a quiet forest. Sometimes Fran imagines being lifted, probably by her neck, by a huge crane, dying. Sometimes there is a big snake or a desolate beach. Sometimes yes, Fran thinks about dying. And that's okay because Rachel Lambert's whimsical “Sometimes I Think About Dying” and the complicated woman at the center are also thinking about other things, good things. Like, well, not die. Maybe even, maybe, live. For a movie about the attraction of death, there sure is a lot of life in this understated charmer. Lambert's initially mannered style lends itself to the film's wonderfully funny first act, when we're introduced to Fran (Daisy Ridley, who gets the chance to show off the kind of nuanced acting that had no place in her turns in "Star Wars"). . her dreams of dying and the spectacularly boring life that could make anyone ponder the afterlife. Fran's days are spent mostly in the distant company of her sweet, if ...